BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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1944
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Detailed explanation-1: -Colossus, the first large-scale electronic computer, which went into operation in 1944 at Britain’s wartime code-breaking headquarters at Bletchley Park.
Detailed explanation-2: -From 1939 to 1944 Aiken, in collaboration with IBM, developed his first fully functional computer, known as the Harvard Mark I. The machine, like Babbage’s, was huge: more than 50 feet (15 metres) long, weighing five tons, and consisting of about 750, 000 separate parts, it was mostly mechanical.
Detailed explanation-3: -ENIAC, in full Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer, built during World War II by the United States.
Detailed explanation-4: -World’s First Modern Computer, Born from an Ursinus Professor, Celebrates 75th Anniversary. On February 15, 1946, Ursinus Professor of Physics John Mauchly and University of Pennsylvania Professor J. Presper Eckert unveiled their invention to the public: ENIAC, the first modern computer.